Republic of Korea - Pension System Overview

 

• IOPS Country Profile: Republic of Korea 2017 (pdf)
  
  
• Korea: Pension system in 2018 (Pensions at a Glance 2019. OECD and G20 indicators)
  
  
• Republic of Korea Voluntary funded pension profile, 2017 (ISSA/OECD/IOPS complementary and private pensions database)

 

Other resources

• Asia 2050 - Realising the Asian century (ADB report, May 2011)
• 'Ageing Asia's Looming Pension Crisis', Donghyun Park (ADB Economics Working Paper Series, 2009)

 

Key regulatory and Supervisory Authorities

• Financial Services Commission (FSC), www.fsc.go.kr/eng
• Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), http://english.fss.or.kr/fss/eng

Key official statistical reference and sources on private pensions

• OECD, Global Pension Statistics project: www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/globalpensionstatistics.htm